Human Right groups in Kenya on Sunday, 3rd July, in a petitioned signed by nothing less than 33 Rights organisations, protested against the state of human rights and rule of law in the East African country, especially in the face of alleged reports suggesting that Police officers were involved in a recent extra-judicial killing of a human right lawyer Willie Kimani, his client and their taxi driver.
Bodies of the three men identified as Willie Kimani, Josephat Mwenda and Joseph Muiruri, was recovered from a river 73 kilometres northeast of Nairobi, Kenya's capital city, after they were abducted, and killed.
Willie Kimani, Josephat Mwenda and Joseph Muiruri, were last seen alive on Thursday, June 23, as they left Mavoko Law Courts, in Machakos County, 2016 where they had attended a hearing of a traffic case against Mwenda.
In December 2015, months after he had lodged a complaint with IPOA against a senior officer at the camp who had illegally shot him in April 2015 as he dismounted a motorcycle after the officers had waved him down to stop, Police officers from Syokimau AP Camp in December 2015, brought charges against Josephat Mwenda.
According to evident brought by the Kenyan Human right group, the three men were briefly held at Syokimau AP Camp soon after they were abducted, the men reportedly disappeared after that until their bodies was recovered about a week later.
So far, Kenya's Inspector-General of Police Joseph Boinett ordered the arrest three AP officers attached to the Syokimau AP Camp, Frederick Leliman, Stephen Chebulet and Sylvia Wanjiku, over offences relating to the killings. Boinett further directed that all their colleagues at the camp be questioned about the disappearances.
The group is asking that those found responsible be held to account in fair trials.
